[Clipart] stuff done today

Leonardo Cunha laobcunha at gmail.com
Mon Aug 9 11:08:32 PDT 2010


I totally agree with that. Gender is not so important. A bio field would be
more useful. And people can always write whatever they want in bio, like
gender and job.

Best regards,
Leonardo Cunha



2010/8/9 jon at rejon.org <jon at rejon.org>

> totally, lets not put gender, work, etc.
>
> Avatar, name (optional), and website, and bio is enough in my opinion,
> and then make them editable...cool...
>
> Jon
>
> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Nathan Eady <eady at galion.lib.oh.us>
> wrote:
> > Francis Bond <bond at ieee.org> writes:
> >
> >> do we really need to ask for gender?
> >
> > Not really, no.
> >
> > Then again, we don't really *need* to ask for job or country or home
> > page or avatar, either.
> >
> > There's a balance to strike.
> >
> > On the one hand, people like to have some kind of identity associated
> > with their account beyond just the username.  Artists should be able
> > to get *some* kind of credit for their contributions to the library,
> > and letting them put a little bit of personal information on their
> > profile is one way to do a little bit of that.
> >
> > On the other hand, it would certainly be possible to go too far and
> > turn the thing into Yet Another Redundant And Totally Gratuitous
> > Social Networking Site, which would be a real shame.
> >
> > Personally, I think the current amount of detail is just about right,
> > but I don't feel strongly either way about the inclusion of the gender
> > field specifically.  I mean, between the avatar and the full name and
> > the home page link, there's plenty of room to disclose one's gender,
> > if it seems important, even without having a gender field as such.
> >
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